Senior Software Engineer I, Broker Platform Engineering

Forge; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Forge in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Broker Platform to deliver high-quality trading experiences using low-latency technologies and software best practices.

You will collaborate with Product, Design and Engineering to integrate data technologies, own API integrations, and drive production readiness, with a hybrid onsite (2-3 days/week) in Soho.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Eng, or equivalent.
• 5-8 years in software engineering with backend-first full-stack experience.
• Experience with CI/CD, deployments, and code quality.
• Finance sector experience with customer-facing products.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL; cloud platforms (AWS).
• Familiarity with GitHub, JIRA, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver software on-time with accurate estimates.
• Own changes to ensure production readiness with monitoring.
• Integrate internal and external APIs for consistent data.
• Provide quality code reviews to prevent issues.
• Partner with product to understand requirements and task priorities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement solutions.
• Support healthy system operations and high availability.

Skills

Backend and Frontend development

CI/CD pipelines

Real-time data processing

Distributed caching

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Git / GitHub

Agile tooling / JIRA

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

DAPR

Redis

PostgreSQL / RDS

AWS

Git / GitHub

JIRA

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more. With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge's goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity, and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect. Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Broker Platform team, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality experiences to our Brokers, working with modern, low-latency technologies and implementing software best practices to incrementally advance our trading and broker operations platform. Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering, you\'ll drive seamless integration of data technologies into our products, setting new standards for user experience and application performance.

Location

This is a hybrid role where you\'ll be onsite 2-3 days a week in our Soho, NY office.

Responsibilities

• Deliver software on-time with accurate estimates
• Take ownership of changes to ensure they run in production with appropriate monitoring
• Integrate internal and external APIs, ensuring data accuracy and consistency across distributed system
• Provide quality code review feedback to prevent production issues and help other team members grow
• Partner with product on understanding requirements, review technical requirements, and take/implement actionable tasks from the team\'s board/backlog
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and design solutions implementing them
• Support healthy system operations and ensure high levels of availability are achieved

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of software engineering experience with a Bachelor\'s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent years of working experience in the field
• Backend-first Full-Stack engineering experience in C#, Java, or an equivalent compiled object-oriented programming language on the back-end and React / Typescript on the front-end
• Experience working in the Financial Services space specifically on a customer facing product
• Proven expertise in working with CI/CD pipelines, managing application deployments, and ensuring code quality
• Knowledge of real-time data processing and event-drive architectures using technologies like Kafka and DAPR
• Experience designing and managing distributed caching strategies using Redis
• Proficient in Databases like PostgreSQL or RDS, SQL queries, and experience with cloud platforms like AWS or similar (Azure, GCP, etc)
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git and platforms like GitHub and Agile project management tools such as JIRA

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as asoftware engineerfor a product engineering team
• Experience with deploying and scaling containerized microservices using Kubernetes in production environments
• Experience using large language models and agentic workflows
• Experience with Event Sourcing and frameworks such as Marten

Compensation and Location Details

For residents of New York, New York the annual base salary range for this role is $168,000-$200,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors.

Additional Information

Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches as well as fingerprint and drug test.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.